My vision of the beauties and challenges of life are expressed in paint and ink.  Hegel's definition of Art as being both form and content guides my art practice.  I strive to make the form, painting and printmaking as well as I can. Each piece carefully created to convey what I intend. 
   Visiting the Rembrandt House as a young artist and seeing Goya's Los Caprichos at the Norton Simon Museum infused in me the desire to do printmaking.   My prints are both relief and intaglio.  The relief prints are made from both linoleum and woodcut. What I carve into the plate, prints white.
   The intaglio process is the opposite.  The process of carving into the plate produces a dark image on a white ground.  I make traditional etchings, engravings and solar polymer etchings.  For the solar polymer etchings, I first draw on mylar with Indian ink and then expose this image onto a photopolymer plate.  After the plate hardens, I print it pushing ink into the recessed surfaces and wiping the protruding surfaces clean.  Finally I put paper unto the plate and run it through a press.  All my prints are printed on premium archival paper and the matting is done with museum quality mats.  Beyond that I hand color many of the etchings with watercolor.
   Nature and the art collections of museums motive me to work. Oil and watercolor are my preferred painting medias. Likewise, I take the upmost care to make paintings with time tested techniques that if taken care of properly will last for hundreds of years.